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Saltwater Aquarium PESTS and what to do about them!

Reef Rookies - Teaching you Saltwater Aquaria

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These 10 reef tank pests will cause you issues! Be sure you are checking your saltwater aquarium regularly and dip/clean everything before it goes into your tank! 🐠 From aiptasia and majano anemones, to dinoflagellates, flatworms, and bobbit worms. These pests will jack up your reef tank aquarium!

Keeping a reef tank is challenging! Learn from my mistakes to find better success in keeping your own saltwater tank! 🌊✨

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20 Comments

@meadowmorph3291 11 days ago

THESE ARE BAD NEMS?

@EuroThunderUp 12 days ago

Did you ever get your Bobbit worm?

@meadowmorph3291 2 weeks ago

SOME VIDEOS SCARE THE HECK OUT OF MR AGAINST A SALT WATER TANK TOWARD A PLANTED FRESH.

@meadowmorph3291 2 weeks ago

CAN WE TAKE THE FISHY FRIENDS OUT OF THE TANK AND PUT THEM INTO YOUR QUARANTEEN TANK AS YOU KILL THE WORMS TO AVOID THE TOXEN RELEASE, OR WILL THAT WILL MAKE OTHER PROBLEMS?

@meadowmorph3291 3 weeks ago

THAT EMERALD CRAB LOOKS LIKE IT'S EATING POPCORN AN WATCHING REALITY SHOWS. LOL YOU GO LITTLE GREEN WONDER!

@paultaft1039 1 month ago

I have never had a aptasia eating file fish eat one but the do eat acans and I have had several copperband butterflies that totally eradicate it.

@the_buggiest 2 months ago

Ohhhh I want a bobbit worm so bad now...

@Cindy-ng6sx 3 months ago

If you dip your live rock won’t you kill most everything on the live rock including the good things you want to introduce?

@MichaelJolicoeur-uf4ek 3 months ago (edited)

Glad I watched this before adding chemi clean to my tank

@notfunnyman6720 4 months ago

Most scarist thing to end up in a tank is a bobbit worm them things are terrifying

@Bete_Noir 5 months ago (edited)

I had a vermatid infestation. Those little tubes covered all my rocks like a spiky forest. They all died, seemingly by themselves after a couple of years, leaving behind a weird whitish speckled pattern on every rock in the tank. I can live with that.

@jimblauvelt6913 5 months ago

So i hear alot about just removing the rock and scrubbing it. Is that an easy thing to do when you've spent the time to glue and epoxy it in place?

@keaganweaver8723 5 months ago

“Unfortunately saltwater tanks are an ecosystem” perfectly sums up the side of this hobby I don’t love. I’m in it FOR the ecosystem.

@witcherkarl 6 months ago

Australian stripey's can be good aptasia eaters as well!

@abcha0s 8 months ago

I'm 20+ years into this hobby. This is a good video. Keep going with this kind of content. It needs a part 2. 10 more things that go bump in the night.

@blaynebrain5525 8 months ago

Came here to say : Majano wands do not “shock” the Aiptasia w/ electricity it released hydrogen at the tip .
Aus stripey were not mentioned they work amazing
Bubble algae : I have found Pitho crabs do a better job than most mithrax crabs

@sickboy4016 8 months ago

Really useful video

@gemfan2411 9 months ago

Help with briopsis

@joshpowers3315 9 months ago

My tank has been almost perfect for 8 years and then somehow about a year ago i got blue clove polyps in there and they are cancer they're growing over everything im gonna have to break it down and start over unfortunately

@ROTTERtube 10 months ago

I had HUNDREDS and HUNDREDS of vermetid snails. they multiply like crazy. still have them. have been using calcium carbonate, which also clears your water up fast. I may replace my rocks one by one.